Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliament last spring Premier Carl Gustaf Ekman nodded approvingly when deputies called for "honesty, complete honesty" in cleaning house after Ivar Kreuger. Last week paunchy Premier Ekman, onetime Blacksmith, onetime editor, Grand Master of Sweden's prohibitionist Good Templars, found himself a victim of the honesty policy...
...finds it seething with murder. Her husband, Jurden Keye, is the meanest man in town. He gets the knife before anyone else in town but he is dead by that time anyway. A bullet killed him. A strumpet who thinks Dallas did it is murdered presently. The third victim is Jurden Keye's mean-tempered female housekeeper. Detective Brady ? mild, courteous, less loquacious than most fictional sleuths?has eight suspects to work with. Like Author Scott's readers, he does not think that Dallas did the shooting...
...First Working Partner, Thomas Bat'a, has been the victim of a terrible disaster. Despite heavy mist he decided to fly to Switzerland in the interest of the concern, which was dearer to him than life. We lose him at a moment when he had succeeded in relaying the foundations of our security and prosperity, and all must honor his memory by devotion to the work that was his life's ideal...
Typhus fever usually manifests itself by a sudden chill and a rise of body temperature to 104° or 105° F. Temperature remains at that exhausting height for 13 or 14 days. Until the ninth day the victim usually is nauseated, has wracking headache. About the ninth day the headache fades, delirium ensues. The patient is apt to be wild and active, or he may be capable of only low, incoherent mutterings. He cannot sleep; he trembles constantly; he is deeply prostrated. If he is to die, death ensues usually between the ninth and twelfth days. Otherwise on the 13th...
...leech is a form of worm which lives on blood, can absorb as much as three or four times its body weight. Around its mouth is a sucker surrounded by a network of strong muscles. It makes a triangular incision in its victim, clamps on the sucker, pumps out the blood the while secreting a ferment which prevents the blood from coagulating. In tropical countries leeches attack men and beasts; in Western Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa they are imbibed in drinking water, cause hemorrhages, nosebleed, headache, asphyxia. They are hermaphrodites. In the U. S. they are retailed in some...